Stephen Donnelly

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board says it could not express confidence in most recent revised substantial completion date

Stephen Donnelly says commissioning of facility accelerated and staff could move in ‘maybe before final completion date’

Budget 2025: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald challenges Taoiseach to ‘bring it on’ and name general election date

Minister for Health says in letter to board of Children’s Health Ireland it is ‘unacceptable that greater progress was not made before now’

Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax sees 25 per cent drop in consumption of sugary drinks

Like Britain, we suffer from advanced administrative sclerosis, but we’re in complete denial

Failure to set substantial completion date for new national children’s hospital a significant risk to commissioning programme for the project, CHI chairman says

Measure is part of strategy aimed at eliminating the use of tobacco products and protecting children

Aontú is concerned the proposed extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds amounts to a State-sponsored behavioural nudge: where their parents got SSIAs or Eircom shares, today’s young women would get Mirena coils

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Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is understood to be targeting expanded funding for the Land Development Agency to build 20,000 homes by 2030

New report from Stephen Donnelly and Dr Rhona Murphy examines rising costs to taxpayer of medical negligence cases

Stronger laws may be needed to safeguard young people, according to Stephen Donnelly

Stephen Donnelly is seeking an expansion to the scheme providing free contraception to women – including possibly to 16-year-olds

Consultancy firm Ernst and Young was paid a total of €33.5m by health service in 2023 for orders over €100,000

Plans to restrict the sale and advertising of vaping products and ban single-use vapes are in train but challenges lie ahead

Protests within 100m of hospitals and other facilities offering pregnancy terminations will be prohibited from mid-October

Sale of disposable vapes in State would be banned under proposals brought before Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting

St James’s Hospital advised Paige Behan to go instead to Holles Street

HSE publishes first report of Opportunistic Case Finding Programme at its national conference on integrated care

More than 40,800 Palestinians have been killed and almost 94,400 wounded in Israel’s military offensive, says Gaza health ministry

Online platforms are harming children in ‘really sinister, dark ways’, says Stephen Donnelly as online health taskforce is announced

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly seeks to improve productivity in the service

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High-quality information ‘more important than ever’, says Stephen Donnelly

As key services in education, health, housing and transport struggle with increasing demand, plans are being devised to deal with pressures from rising immigration and people living longer

There have been a number of cases in which people in high-profile positions at a healthcare facility that experienced controversy stepped down without any findings of wrongdoing being made against them

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Government should declare smartphone and social media use by the young as public health emergency, says Irish Medical Organisation

The public consultation looked at potential additional measures to decrease the appeal of nicotine-inhaling products to young people

Health and social care regulator publishes terms of reference of new review into emergency department services in midwest region

Simon Harris says inquiry into former consultant surgeon is a matter for whole Government, after Stephen Donnelly claimed it was ‘not a healthcare issue’

Reassignment of former CHI chief Eilísh Hardiman to new position as strategic programme director in April followed ‘mediation process’, documents indicate

Spokesperson for contractors BAM says it is ‘fully confident in the quality of the construction work for this world-class hospital’

With rising pressure on GP resources, the initiative should help to address an increasing bottleneck

Minister for Health says ‘the kind of reforms that have worked in other hospitals are not fully rolled out in UHL’

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly intends to have scheme in place by ‘early next year’

Hormone replacement therapy is a prescription-based medicine used to relieve symptoms of menopause such as hot flushes, night sweats and mood swings

Covid-19, flu, MMR and suite of childhood vaccinations to be included in scheme to cover adverse events resulting from State vaccine programmes

Move to include expanded intakes for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, podiatric medicine and physiotherapy programmes